Questo articolo parla del film The Thousand Autumn of Jacob de Zoet e menziona Xena:
Mitchell situates his reflections on freedom and enslavement, reason and faith, in a fast-verging-on-breathless narrative that makes full and delighted use of the ripping yarn tool kit. Jacob’s forbidden and foolishly expressed love for Orito, her abduction and mountain-top confinement by the devious Abbot Enomoto (think Castle of Otranto), her plucky escape attempt (think Xena the warrior princess), and thwarted rescue, take us only to the end of Part Two.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7865861/The-Thousand-Autumns-of-Jacob-de-Zoet-by-David-Mitchell-review.html